Stephenson Briefs Opened With Local Visit Notes
The Christian Fellowship Group met Monday night. Mrs. John Carper spent a weekend with friends in Berkeley Springs West Virginia. Bertha Ashwood and son Meredith traveled to Cowans Gap in Pennsylvania on Labor Day. Visitors at Mr. and Mrs. George Travers included Harry Brannon and family plus Mrs. Biedel of Shippensburg Pennsylvania. Mrs. Grove of Gaithersburg Maryland visited Mrs. Travers. Mr. and Mrs. H C Watson and children spent a day with Bertha Ashwood. Dorothy Anderson returned home from a week in Hagerstown Maryland. Ada Snapp of Martinsburg West Virginia, Royce Smelser and Charley Smelser of Rudsey West Virginia visited Mr. and Mrs. Amos Prince.
Boston Laundry Coop Ends Laundry Woes With Aseptics
Boston residents and workers formed a cooperative washing and ironing enterprise to tackle frequent wash days. Colonel William Smith of Children's Hospital Medical Center helped start the Hospitals Laundry Association in 1961, now in its second year, processing 13 million pounds of laundry annually.
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Boston
Hospitals Laundry Association Inc
William Smith
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Virginia trio cited in social notices
Va. residents Jack Larrick and Mrs Dor othy DeHaven, along with Mrs Bertha Ashwood, appear in a local social notices column.
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Jack Larrick
Dorothy DeHaven
Bertha Ashwood
Newport News Premier Of Art Exhibit At York Gallery
Newport News hosts the premier of five traveling exhibitions from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts York gallery of contemporary art. The show features 25 oils valued between 3 800 and 350 dollars painted in the last decade as part of the museum's addition of more than 50 works to its permanent collection. Museum director Leslie Cheek Jr. notes the acquisitions include significant pieces ranging from 4000-year-old Egyptian statuettes to contemporary American paintings.
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Richmond
Newport News
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
York Gallery
Governor to award traffic safety honors in Virginia
Governor Harrison will award traffic safety promotion honors on September 19 to five state officials and representatives from 23 city governments, two radio stations, four TV stations, three newspapers and an advertising firm. Recipients include Bedford, Big Stone Gap, Bristol, Buena Vista, Clifton Forge, Colonial Heights, Covington, Danville, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Galax, Hopewell, Manassas Park, Marion, Newport News, Norfolk, Norton, Petersburg, Pulaski, Roanoke, Salem, Vienna, Williamsburg, plus WAVA radio, WTAR-TV Norfolk, WXEX-TV Petersburg, Richmond Times-Dispatch, WAVA Radio, WTVR Richmond, Roanoke Times, World News, and WSLS-TV Roanoke.
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Richmond
Albertis S. Harrison Jr
National Safety Council
International Association of Chiefs of Police
American Automobile Association
Governor’s Highway Safety Committee
Buena Vista
Clifton Forge
Colonial Heights
Covington
Danville
Falls Church
Fredericksburg
Galax
Hopewell
Manassas Park
Marion
Newport News
Norfolk
Norton
Petersburg
Pulaski
Roanoke
Salem
Vienna
Wil
Liamsburg
WAVA
Arlington
Wtar - TV
Donnelly Advertising Corp
Virginia
Wxex-Tv
Peterburg
Richmond Times Dispatch
Wava Radio
WTVR
Roanoke Times and World News
Wsls-Tv
Break‑in at El Dorado Home Ends With Nap
Police report a break in at the H. M. Wait house in El Dorado with a bed appearing slept in and nothing missing. Officers investigated while the Waits were away and found no theft.
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H. M. Wait
el Dorado
Fire drill ethics flare as house is set ablaze for training
About 150 spectators watched as Arlington Kansas firefighters burned a vacant house multiple times to train recruits. The fire department staged the controlled blazes and then extinguished them, conducting a long running exercise for a school for firemen.
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Arlington
Kan
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